Flora of North America species comparison

cauline (crowded proximally);

petiole absent;

blade spatulate, unlobed or minutely 3-toothed or -lobed apically, 4–11 mm, leathery, margins entire, (not cartilaginous), stiffly ciliate, apex rounded or obtuse, mucronate, surfaces glabrous.

basal and cauline, (basal usually withered at flowering, cauline reduced);

petiole absent or present, flattened, 2–10[–20] mm;

blade spatulate or elliptic to ovate, (2–)3(–5)-lobed apically or unlobed (lobes divergent), 2–10(–23) mm, thin, margins entire, stipitate-glandular, apex obtuse, surfaces ± purple-tipped stipitate-glandular to glabrate.

3–6-flowered cymes, 2.5–12 cm, pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts sessile.

2–10[–50]-flowered, loose thyrses or cymes, sometimes solitary flowers, 0.5–6 cm, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts sessile or short-petiolate.

sepals erect, ovate to oblong, margins sparsely ciliate, surfaces glabrous;

petals white to cream, yellow-spotted proximally, red- or orange-spotted distally, these often faded in dried specimens, elliptic, 4–6 mm, much longer than sepals;

ovary superior.

sepals erect, elliptic to ovate, margins ± stipitate-glandular, surfaces adaxially ± stipitate-glandular;

petals white, not spotted, narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, 2.5–3 mm, longer than sepals;

ovary 3/4 to completely inferior.

= 26.

= 22 (Europe).